Old schools vie

SIR – Robin Price (Letters, January 5) takes issue with Ed Cumming’s description of Sherborne as a “minor public school” (Features, January 4).

Sherborne may or may not be minor. However, only seven public schools were acknowledged in the Public Schools Act of 1868. Sherborne is not one of them.

Andrew Wauchope

London SE11

SIR – When on the touchline watching a Harrow v Eton 1st XV Rugby Match, I frequently overheard Harrow being referred to as a “minor public school” – usually when Eton was losing. Penny French

Pinner, Middlesex